The Matrix

"Welcome to the real world, Neo"

This film was so far advanced for its time it was unreal. It took me until my late 30's to fully understand what was happening in this film -- you could say I was deeply plugged into the matrix! Haha.

Most outspoken internet celebrities like Andrew Tate as a prime example use this film to call the situation humanity is in. The Matrix. Such a deep illusion of reality you wont even realise that you are asleep.

And this is most of humanity. Getting into crypto helped me realise this. I sometimes discuss with my friend that loves to program AI that consciousness is a farce, are most people really conscious? Or are they going through a set amount of programs dictated on them since birth. It's a great discussion and one this film explores in depth. Are we conscious?

We start off the film with Neo, a young computer programmer who knows there's something "out there." He's always wanted to find the elusive computer hacker "Morpheus" who always seems to escape the authorities and the authorities are always hot on his heels.

Despite Neo's young complexion and baby face, Neo is actually quite the hacker himself and has been searching far and wide for signs of Morpheus all of his adult life.

That's of course when he gets a message on his computer asking him if he wants to know the truth, that the world may not be what it seems

The very next day the Agents come after him. You see, the government really really want to get a hold of Morpheus and they'll do anything they can to get their hands on him. Even to the point of tracking what Neo received and coming to hassle him at work.

Yeah, he didn't expect that.

But eventually Morpheus catches up with Neo after he's been interrogated and offers him a chance to find out the truth. And what Neo finds out, as we all find out, the truth is far far from the current reality..

Honestly I miss sci fi films like this. Where reality is swept cleanly from underneath us and we are presented with a completely alternative truth. This is one of the best I've seen so far.

But it's not just that which makes this film significant. Is that it mirrors our own lives and suggests that (if you read into it deeply enough) that most of us are asleep as we watch this film. That we are just unconscious drones working about our daily lives, thinking that we are completely in control of ourselves whilst not being in control whatsoever.

A lot of us have found this out in crypto. Some haven't yet. But they will eventually. That the world is not what it seems in the slightest, and whilst we aren't in an alternative reality like this film suggests, we are all essentially sleepwalking around our lives to benefit someone else.

Great film. Suggest you watch it if you haven't already!